BS: Be somewhat afraid

Subject: RE: BS: Be somewhat afraid
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 01:45 AM

For comparison - authoritative(?) data for ONE YEAR:

CDC: Causes for Deaths 2004
Number of deaths for leading causes of death
Heart disease: 652,486
Cancer: 553,888
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 150,074
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 121,987
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 112,012
Diabetes: 73,138
Alzheimer's disease: 65,965
Influenza/Pneumonia: 59,664
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 42,480
Septicemia: 33,373

More recent information suggests significant changes: e.g. a massive increase from resistant infections, which would likely fall in the "Septicemia" category.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Be somewhat afraid
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 01:20 AM

18,000 US dead per year from drug resistant Staph

1 dead licking cake batter off the mixer plug while the other end is plugged into the wall while standing bare foot in a puddle of Kool Aid.

Subject: RE: BS: Be somewhat afraid
From: number 6
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 10:46 PM

"Calling chimps "monkeys": 1,782"

That's a looad of BS L.H.

Don't believe everything that monkey friend of yours Chongo tells ya.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Be somewhat afraid
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 10:43 PM

Something wrong here, I think. For example, after accidents the main cause of death for younger, adult women is homicide. A very sad statistic! (I saw it in a pamphlet from the life insurance industry which I processed at a public library.)

Subject: RE: BS: Be somewhat afraid
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 06:21 PM

The data was sent to me unsourced. Skimming it, though, the numbers seem roughly reasonable--though I would have expected murder to rank up there.

Subject: RE: BS: Be somewhat afraid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 06:04 PM

It's not. Chongo shot quite a number of people (and also some other apes) intentionally over that same 10-year period. In his defence, however, he had good reason to. They were trying to kill him.

Subject: RE: BS: Be somewhat afraid
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 06:01 PM

It looks from those figures as if during that ten year period no one in the States ever got shot intentionally, except by police officers. Are you quite sure that's correct?

Subject: RE: BS: Be somewhat afraid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 05:42 PM

It should be noted, however, that the above statistics are quite high when you factor in the quite small number of chimps involved nationwide in the above incidents!

My advice? Don't mention poop-throwing around a chimp, and never, never call him a "monkey"!

Subject: RE: BS: Be somewhat afraid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 05:36 PM

FAIRLY LOW -

Making "poop-throwing" jokes about chimps in the presence of same: 2,112

Calling chimps "monkeys": 1,782

Subject: RE: BS: Be somewhat afraid
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 03:59 PM

Dick, interesting statistics; what is the source of these numbers?
Also, it would be interesting to know why this particular eleven year period was chosen, as opposed to, say, 1990-2000. Also, what does a category entail? For instance 'walking down the street': does this mean just keeling over whilst walking, or perhaps being shot in a drive-by while walking. If so shot, might that be more aptly placed under accidental gunshot (if the deceased was not the intended target), or under terrorism (whether or not the intended victim of the gunshot)?
So much inquiring minds want to know.

Subject: RE: BS: Be somewhat afraid
From: gnu
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 03:57 PM

Hahahahaha.... thanks John. I needed that. Best laugh in a while!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Be somewhat afraid
From: John Hardly
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 03:53 PM

UNGUARDED

Playing without tuning: 4,313

Subject: BS: Be somewhat afraid
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 03:37 PM

Here are stats on some things that actually killed American civilians
between 1995 and 2005. You could call it a National Terror Alert Reality
Check, and add colors at will for each level of risk:

SEVERE
Driving off the road: 254,419
Falling: 146,542
Accidental poisoning: 140,327

HIGH
Dying from work: 59,730
Walking down the street: 52,000
Accidental drowning: 38,302

ELEVATED
The flu: 19,415
Hernias: 16,742

GUARDED
Accidental gunshot: 8,536
Accidental electrocution: 5,171

LOW
Being shot by a police officer: 3,949
Terrorism: 3,147
Carbon monoxide in products: 1,554